Hey all,
I know they hold a couple of tri's in the area that include a Schuylkill swim. After one of them, I was talking to a guy who participated, and he said he often did practice swims in the Schuylkill on his own.
I can't see myself doing that--not ready to assume the risks of swimming alone in that river--but are there ever organized swims outside of the triathlons?
I'm not interested in doing the tri's (the bike part never interested me, and I have a gimpy foot so can't run), but I think it would be cool to just do the swim portion of a tri (although I'm not fast enough for a team to see me as an asset if they want to be competitive)--even better if they'd ever have stand-alone o.w. swims, since the location is so convenient for me.
Has anyone gotten word of stand-alone swims in the works?
I found this site which says the river is currently at the highest ("Red") contaminant level:
www.phillyrivercast.org/
I couldn't find any historical data, but past experience would lead me to believe that Red is a very common level for the Schuylkill. :D We used to swim, fish, waterski, etc. in the Delaware, but never the Schuylkill. Then again, I used to jump off a rope swing into Pennypack Creek, and I survived that.
I found this site which says the river is currently at the highest ("Red") contaminant level:
www.phillyrivercast.org/
I couldn't find any historical data, but past experience would lead me to believe that Red is a very common level for the Schuylkill. :D We used to swim, fish, waterski, etc. in the Delaware, but never the Schuylkill. Then again, I used to jump off a rope swing into Pennypack Creek, and I survived that.
